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The Globe and Mail Drops the Ball on Subprime

March 14, 2009

Last night I was surfing through Twitter and one tweet caught my eye. Mostly it was because it was in ALL CAPS which annoys me to no end, but the word ‘canada’ made me mildly curious. The title of the article is “Canada’s dirty subprime secret” and while I was considering a subscription before, this [...]

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We Are Becoming Active Savers – Benjamin Tal

November 4, 2008

Our friend Benjamin Tal was quoted in an article I ran across this week in the Globe and Mail. There were some interesting quotes in the article called The days of wine and roses and showpiece kitchens are well and truly over, for now. (Ed Note: Is it just me, or should the title of [...]

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Credit Liquidity is the Problem

October 30, 2008

The real driver (such as it is) of the current American and global recession is the lack of available credit. It was Benjamin Tal from CIBC who pointed out that Ben Bernanke, the chariman  of the US Federal Reserve is a student of the Great Depression. His diagnosis, (via Ben Tal, which I agree with), [...]

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Canada’s Real Estate Market Won’t Meltdown

October 4, 2008

Benjamin Tal, who I’ve discussed before after his July 2008 presentation on the state of the Canadian and US economies to the Real Estate Investment Network, was finally quoted in some good context in a CBC article. (Hat tip to Gary McGowan and Don Campbell on myREINspace) It’s nice when the mainstream media publishes something [...]

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Benjamin Tal teaches me about SEO

September 4, 2008

Benjamin Tal is a Senior Economist with CIBC World Markets. He gave a great talk on the North American Economy at the June 2008 REIN meeting which I blogged about this week. While I was poking around for more information the next day I noticed that he very seldom shows up in search results. In [...]

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